Announcement text for Review Board 2.0.

Review Request #5841 — Created May 19, 2014 and submitted

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This is the proposed announcement text for Review Board 2.0. It's intended to be
somewhat thorough (in terms of the main user-facing features) without going into
too much detail (since people will just gloss over if we are too wordy).


 

Announcing Review Board 2.0!

We are very excited to announce the release of Review Board 2.0. This is our largest release ever, with lots of new features for end users and administrators, over 70 bugs fixed, usability and performance improvements throughout the product, and significant enhancements to our web API and extension framework.

There's way too much to talk about for this post. We'll simply go over some of the changes we've made to help the day-to-day life of software developers. The release notes will cover the rest.

The diff viewer is more powerful

So much of your time in Review Board is spent looking at diffs. We decided to make that time more pleasant.

We moved to a nicer look-and-feel with better readability, redesigned the revision/interdiff selector, added smarter moved line support and cleaner interdiffs, revamped the file listing (which introduces icons showing the complexity of changes), and


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I've never been a big fan of "X new features!" in marketing stuff. Can we use something less precise, like …

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    We are very excited to announce the release of Review Board 2.0. This is our largest release ever, with over 50 new features for end users and administrators, over 70 bugs fixed, usability and performance improvements throughout the product, and significant enhancements to our web API and extension framework.

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    I've never been a big fan of "X new features!" in marketing stuff. Can we use something less precise, like "lots of new features"?

    1. Can do.

      Same with bug fixes?

    2. Bug fixes I'm somewhat more comfortable with because it's more clear how to define a bug fix.

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